
Within the period 1520-1740 this series discusses many kinds of writing, both within and outside the established canon. The volumes may employ different theoretical perspectives, but they share an historical awareness and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotiation...

Work on Ben Jonson has long been dominated by the 11-volume Oxford text of hisWorks,edited by C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson (1925-52). In that monumental edition, Jonson seems a remote and forbidding figure, an author of formidable learning and literariness...